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Why This Planet Needs a Woman’s Touch

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Women around the world possess crucial knowledge about agriculture and biodiversity. Photos by Find Your Feet (L) and Paul Stevenson (R) via Flickr. When you’re trying to protect an entire planet, it seems pretty silly to leave half of its human inhabitants out of the discussion, but that’s exactly what’s happening to women in many parts of the world, according to a recent report on the IPS news wire. Local projects in Afghanistan… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Dispatch from World Environment Day in Rwanda: Looking at the Biodiversity Balance Sheet

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo:Meaghan O’Neill. Think about everything you love about nature, and why you believe its worth preserving. Maybe the smell of the ocean breeze, say, or the beauty of your favorite flower in bloom reminds you of your mom. Maybe you love bird watching or camping with your family. Perhaps the extinction of a even single animal makes your heart despair. Whatever it is, it probably has some emotion attached to it. Well, it’s time to drop the nostalgia. Because if their was one message from the United Nation World Environment Day conference in Kigali, Rwanda, it was that ecosystems have financial value. We … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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